Last night as I was working on my shift, me and my coworker were thinking of ways to add Star Wars into KH. The thing is we were thinking about it from Lucasfilm's Story Group perspective. How can you put Canon SW into Kh without messing with it at the risk of making it Legends.
Funny thing is we dropped the convo to discuss Re:Coded and that's when it hit me. Data.
What
IF Sora finds pieces of red and blue glass shards throughout his adventure and must piece them together to form Holocrons! Just like the torn pages you must collect them to get the whole story. Each piece of the Holocron will give you an Episode where Sora can enter via Chip and Dales machine or some magic jumbo. Sora could interact with canon characters and events without messing with the continuity.
And as a bonus if you complete the Holocrons you can unlock a recipe for weapon synthesis.
Here's some images of Holocrons:
What do you guys think? If you had to add SW how would you add it?
While I do consider myself somewhat of a Star Wars nerd, I admit I am not entirely on board with how the Lucasfilm Story Group prioritizes things and how they handle things like i.e. Star Wars in Disney Infinity or Lego Star Wars.
Is it really that any newly made Star Wars material
has to fit somehow in the "one true" Star Wars canon that is supervised by the Story Group?
I'm having a really hard time believing that as if I remember correctly such things as the "Infinities"-Label, which denotes a work which is non-canon for
both the new supervised canon after April 2014 and the old Expanded Universe now labeled
Legends still exists.
Depending on how such examples as Disney Infinity or Lego Star Wars are handled, the Lucasfilm Story Group might not even
want to make any Star Wars elements that could appear in the Kingdom Hearts series official canon as that would in one way or another require eventual acknowledgement of the existence of the KH Universe in a Star Wars work itself.
Now for the idea with the Holocrons though, this is actually an intriguing idea as Holocrons are ancient "recording devices" so to say that work with the force and depending what the holocron in question has stored inside a scenario similar to Space Paranoids/The Grid would certainly be possible as Sora & co. could relive a certain event/battle/story from the Star Wars galaxy without the
actual Star Wars galaxy ever getting involved.
This way, it could even enter actual canon as the Star Wars side would have to do nothing beyond acknowledging the existence of this (or these if several) holocrons and that they are considered lost.
Considering the Jedi Purge after the Clone Wars also included Palpatine and his dark side servants destroying or making inaccessible as much knowledge about the Jedi and force artifacts as possible it would even have a sort of historical logic within the Star Wars setting.
In terms of KH itself though, even if Sora or someone else would be capable of piecing the Holocron back together, in order to open the Holocron and access the things stored in it you need to be force-sensitive and at least rudimentally schooled in using/accessing the force.
Furthermore, Jedi Holocrons can only be opened by using the light side of the force while Sith Holocrons can only opened by using the dark side, as it stands, no one in the KH universe would meet these criteria, except of course if one wants to insinuate Keyblade Wielders being automatically force-sensitive.
Good question. Maybe the Unknown Regions can come into play? Maybe the pieces went into a black hole transferring them to the Kingdom Hearts' universe.
The Unknown Regions are still part of the Star Wars galaxy and unlike the Legends EU where they indeed
were largely "unknown" except for a few accessible planets due to contact with governments like the Chiss Ascendancy or the Empire of the Hand, in the new canon apparently the Empire made more serious efforts in taking the "unknown" out of the Regions and it is right now the main powerbase of the First Order.
If the KH "Universe" could be implied to be located there somewhere, how big is the chance that they (the Empire's Explorers, later the First Order) continually "missed" them? In terms of scale, what we know as the "KH Universe" might in the Star Wars galaxy probably be just a single star system if not even just a single planet so them never being discovered would make sense in this case.
If we speak about transferring though, while the "Far Outsiders" and civilization beyond the galaxy is, as far as I know, only a topic in old EU Legends material, the canon novels of the Aftermath-series and the novel Bloodline do have some hints about i.e. the belief of Darth Sidious/Palpatine that the source of the dark side of the force lies either somewhere in the Unknown Regions or even
outside the galaxy.
Furthermore, Legends material can be reintroduced into offcial canon as shown already multiple times, so establishing a force/civilization outside of the Star Wars galaxy again is still a thing and the KH universe could theoretically be among these as well.
As for how one or several holocrons could end up there, considering the technological advancement of the Star Wars galaxy, massive Superweapons that may even use Phantom energy and on top of it the powers of the force, the possibilities of a holocron being shattered and flung even outside the galaxy so it may even end up in the KH universe somehow are vast.
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